`Home Documentary more than Breathtaking

Home (2009)

It was at the very end of September 2010, when a friend invited me and other friends to see this documentary at a theater in Dubai.  To say that it was breathtaking doesn't quite capture how superb this was:  It was resonating, it was moving, it was provocative.

That September 2010 was just six months into my work on Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm, and many of my ideas and insights were budding at best and vague at worst.  Still this documentary was pivotal in my crucial preliminary thoughts on the environment, which I took stock of in February 2013. 

How well we keep (or regain) equilibrium for proper sustenance and growth depends on a host of weighty actions, such as:  (a) We halt our adverse impact on the environment.  (b) We reduce our consumption or alter our consumption pattern.  (c) We somehow assist Mother Earth in replenishing herself.

From Weighing Worldwide Heartbreaks.

Home is a mere 93 minutes in length (click on the image caption, above, to view it), but its coverage and reach and impact span millennia in the history of life on earth.   

Algorithm for Environment is forthcoming, but my articles this week are small but notable steps in that long, effortful formulation.